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"Life of Pope [from Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, familiarly known as The Lives of the Poets]"
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Date: 1779, 1781
"This doctrine is in itself pernicious as well as false; its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination or overruling principle which cannot be resisted: he that admits it is prepared to comply with every desire that caprice or opportunity shall excite, and to flatter him...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)